Expert Advisory Details

Advisory for Paddy farmers

Rice- Keeping in view of delay in monsoon rain farmers are advice to maintain irrigation facility in the paddy crop.

• Farmers are advice to transplant 20-25 days old paddy seedling in prepared fields with spacing of 20 x 10 (R x P) cm.
• Nitrogen 100 kg./ha, Phosphorus 60 kg./ha, Potash 40 kg./ha and zinc sulphate 25 kg/ ha should be use before transplanting. Add one packet/acre of Blue Green Algae (BGA) in those fields of paddy where standing water is available, as it is rich source of nitrogen.
• Farmers are advised to make bund for conserving rain water in the field. Bund should be higher and wider so that more rain water can be conserved in the field.
• In the paddy nursery, if upper leaves of the paddy seedlings become yellow and lower leaves remain green, it indicates the iron deficiency.
• Spraying of ferrous sulphate @ 0.5 % with 0.25% lime solution is recommended to overcome this problem.